Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c. Illustrated: In a Series of Views Drawn from Nature, Volumen1

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Página 2 In the murmur of his native wave he fancies he hears the distant rush of the Nile
or Euphrates: in the night wind the blast of the desert again passes by : and on
the bleak moor that " Rock of ages," that has been his shadow from the heat,
again ...

Página 4 Too impatient to drink in the usual way, the party threw themselves on the shore,
and, plunging their faces in the wave, drank long and insatiably. The track of the
great caravan, during an unfortunate season, is at intervals strewed with victims ...

Página 5 No gainsaying or scepticism can be feared from other ladies, who have never
strayed from the banks of the Bosphorus, or heard more awful sounds than the
murmur of its waves, or their own fountains. The Mahometans, from the tomb of
their ...

Página 6 ... may no longer dread the plundering Kurd or Bedouin, when his country's flag
heaves in sight far over the plain, " on that ancient river Euphrates," as daringly
as when " Her march was on the mountain wave, Her home was on the deep.

Página 9 ... that meets the stranger every day in the Alps, is in the East an unwonted sight,
and he pauses long and entrancedly before its flashing volume — as if the lost
palaces of Bali suddenly rose from the waves at his feet The fall is broken in
many ...

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Página 9 - Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no 'galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.

Página 42 - Like dew upon a sleeping flower, there lies A tear some Dream has loosened from his brain." Lost Angel of a ruined Paradise ! She knew not 'twas her own; as with no stain She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain.

Página 48 - The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty. I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

Página 57 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel ; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you: therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.

Página 56 - O'er intervening flowers to move — And as we read the names unknown, Of young and old, to judgment gone, And hear, in the calm air above, Time onwards softly flying, To meditate, in Christian love, Upon the dead and dying ! Across the silence seem to go With dream-like motion...

Página 32 - But treads with silent footstep, and fans with silent wing The tender hopes which in their hearts the best and gentlest bear; Who, soothed to false repose by the fanning plumes above. And the music-stirring motion of its soft and busy feet, Dream visions of aerial joy, and call the monster, Love, And wake, and find the shadow Pain, as he whom now we greet.